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Overheard – chatty protocol



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
chatty protocol, Networking, WAN, WAN acceleration
Even the most widely used protocol on the Internet — namely, HTTP — may be described as both chatty (involving frequent communications) and bursty (involving numerous periods during which tens to hundreds of resource requests may be in flight on the network at any given moment).

Ed Tittel, WAN optimization techniques

Today’s WhatIs.com Word of the Day is chatty protocol.

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